John L. Hennessy

John L. Hennessy is an American computer scientist and Academic. He is the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. and is the 10th President of Stanford University.

Date of birth:

  • 1953 (age 59 years)

Also known as:

  • John Hennessy, Ph.D.,
  • Jonh Hennessy,
  • John LeRoy Hennessy,
  • John L. Hennessy, Ph.D.,
  • John Hennessy

Organization

Governance of:

Organization Title From
  • 2004
  • 2002
  • 1998
  • Director
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Leader of:

Organization Role Title From
  • President
  • Oct 2000

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Award Winner

Awards Won:

Year Award Notes/Description
  • 2001
  • "For pioneering contributions to the foundation, teaching, and practice of high performance computing, especially in distributed shared memory multiprocessor architectures and in design and application of reduced instruction set architectures."
  • 2001
  • 2000
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